Artistic handling of metals is the art to create exquisite products with artistic value and expressiveness. This art comes to us from ancient times. Generation after generation skilled masters solicitously handed down their knowledge and techniques in metal decorations, magnificent results of which we admire today. Craftsmen transform ordinary items into pieces of art which reflect their masters' talents together with traditions and culture of their country.   
Characteristic ornaments, miniatures of commemorations and mythology scenes bring to us through ages picturesque images of life and beliefs of our ancestors… It's long time ago that decoration of metal has turned into pure art from desire for personalization of useful objects.
Works of metal craftsmen are often considered as artistic jewelry, and the best masterpieces become museum exhibits and objects of cravings of many connoisseurs and collectors. 
 
Damask / Bulat / Zlatoust

It is hard to find a collector, a hunter or anyone fond of cold steel, who had never heard anything about this legendary material - damask. Analogue in Russia – bulat. For about  300 years the ancient secret of production and treatment of True Damascus Steel was considered to be lost in the whole world. In Russia famous scientist and metallurgist Pavel P. Anosov (1799-1851) recreated this technology in 1838. But, brilliant discoveries of Anosov in this field again were partially lost after his death, rediscovered only nowadays.
This unique kind of decorative-applied art appeared as an art of cold arms ornamentation in Russia in the early 19th century, when an arms plant was opened in Zlatoust city (now part of Cheliabinsky region, Ural mountains). Recognized German specialists from Solingen and Klingental, including the famous master - blade decorator Wilhelm Schaff together with his sons - were invited to work at the plant. That was Schaff who decorated the first Zlatoust blades. Later on Russian Zlatoust craftsmen  adopted his methods and mastered Schaff's techniques of metal ornamentation as well as perfected them, creating complex compositions and multi-figure battle scenes.
The use in the blade production of P. Anosov's famous "bulat" and Obukhov steel along with its high artistic ornamentation brought fame to the Zlatoust embellished arms not only in Russia, but far beyond country borders. These materials have been highly praised during numerous international industrial exhibitions and today are widely used in cosmos and many similar high-tech spheres.